The Daughter of a Conglomerate Family Has Debuted - Chapter 86

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The Chaebol’s Daughter Debuted

Episode 86

“….”

The trainees’ attention focused on announcer Choi Gyu-jin.

More precisely, on the mission results that would flow from his mouth.

“As explained earlier, this round’s results will be determined by combining not only the judges’ evaluations, but also the viewers’ advance voting and the group song focus video view counts.”

Amid everyone’s tension, announcer Choi Gyu-jin hardened his expression even more and spoke in a cold tone.

“Also, the group that ultimately places 5th will unfortunately be leaving Start Plan today.”

“Ah….”

A hollow sigh filled with regret echoed from U&Da’s direction.

Meanwhile, I Meet You and Romance Story were frozen solid, unable to even let out a sigh.

A tense atmosphere. The judges appeared on the screen behind announcer Choi Gyu-jin.

Announcer Choi Gyu-jin stepped slightly to the side and said.

“Then let’s officially begin the ranking announcement. First, we’ll announce all the team rankings at once. Please reveal the team rankings.”

At announcer Choi Gyu-jin’s words, the screen switched and with the sound of a spinning roulette – ding! ding! – all the teams’ rankings were revealed.

…Huh?

For a moment, my mind went completely blank.

What am I looking at right now?

After one, two, three seconds passed, we.

“Waaahhh!!!”

Burst out shouting as we stood up.

We’re in 1st place?

1st place, my goodness, 1st place!

I was so surprised I couldn’t help but shout without thinking.

The members were the same.

Because we were a team made up entirely of members from groups that had never once placed 1st until now.

People who desperately wanted 1st place but couldn’t reach it.

Of course, the mix match results weren’t the overall ranking, but anyway, the number 1 in front of our names was an incredibly joyful thing.

“Congratulations!”

“Amazing!”

“Congratulations!”

Applause poured down on us as we jumped up and down with joy.

Naturally, trainees who had members in Flan-Shu celebrated with us since our score would become their group’s score too.

Romance Story, desperate for every single point….

Couldn’t properly manage their expressions.

All of Romance Story’s members belonged to the 3rd and 4th place teams, so it was perhaps natural.

Of course, this was only the stage ranking and the final ranking hadn’t been announced yet, but it was hard to prevent negative thoughts.

And May Rookie, who had never dropped from 1st place until now, was clapping half-heartedly with an ambiguous smile.

In this situation, the advance voting would need to be overwhelming enough to suppress the video view count scores to reverse the results.

This meant the possibility of May Rookie losing 1st place in the final results had increased.

And if May Rookie couldn’t get 1st place, then this round’s 1st place would be….

‘This time it might really be us.’

Thump thump, my heart started beating again.

“Yes, Flan-Shu has taken 1st place in this mix match stage evaluation. They left a strong impression with very unique direction and pair dance. Shall we hear from the judges about why they chose Flan-Shu for 1st place?”

At announcer Choi Gyu-jin’s words, the judges appeared on the screen again.

Among them, Ji-hoon picked up the microphone.

“Yes, first congratulations to Flan-Shu for 1st place. In Flan-Shu’s case, honestly I was quite worried just looking at the song selection. It’s music with such a strong character.”

We nodded enthusiastically, unable to hide our smiles.

Seeing this, Ji-hoon chuckled and continued.

“More than the arrangement or direction, I was most curious about how these members would bring it to life. There was one thing we didn’t think of.”

“Something you didn’t think of. What would that be?”

At announcer Choi Gyu-jin’s question, Ji-hoon pointed at us with his palm up.

“We didn’t think that Flan-Shu was full of friends with much stronger personalities than the song.”

“Wow…. Flan-Shu’s character was much stronger than the song.”

“Yes, throughout the continuous pair dance, even though it flowed very fast and frantically, every single member was visible without exception.”

Having every member visible in an idol group is really difficult.

This was tremendous praise.

Ji-hoon continued speaking.

“Not to mention their vocal and dance skills. It made me think that having good skills really is the best. It was a very good stage where we could see new aspects of the members.”

“Yes! Thank you. Those were the words of judge Ji-hoon.”

After Ji-hoon’s comment ended, the screen changed.

The newly appeared screen had [Final Ranking Results Announcement] written in large letters.

Sweat began to form between my tightly clenched fists without me realizing.

‘Quickly, the results, quickly.’

As I stared intently at the screen feeling like dopamine addiction had been activated, announcer Choi Gyu-jin spoke.

“Stage score 1st place Flan-Shu, congratulations once again. Seeing you celebrate makes me feel excited too. But it’s not over yet! It’s too early for Flan-Shu to celebrate. The final ranking announcement is still left.”

All the trainees’ gazes turned to the screen.

Announcer Choi Gyu-jin shouted loudly.

“Start Plan Round 3 Mix Match! Final rankings revealed!”

Solemn BGM echoed, and through it came the sound of the spinning roulette again – ding ding!

And finally, the final rankings were revealed.

‘Ah….’

Powerful and splendid BGM, spotlights pouring down only on me and the Flora members in the dim space.

Announcer Choi Gyu-jin shouted in an excited voice.

“Round 3 Mix Match 1st place is Flora! It’s your first 1st place. Congratulations!”

A thrilling sensation spread from my fingertips.

It felt like blocked breath was finally clearing.

A great comeback victory we finally achieved.

We, finally we.

As I looked around at the members while trying to suppress the breath that was about to burst out, the members were all approaching each other without being able to make a sound.

The Flora members, who had gotten as close as possible, hugged each other with all their strength.

“Guys…. Guys….”

“What do we do? We did this….”

Those who could at least speak were fortunate.

Someone I couldn’t see because we were hugging was trembling like an aspen leaf, and generally everyone was patting each other while speechless.

“Guys, you worked hard.”

Han Da-min tried to pull herself together emotionally and comforted the members.

All the Flora members were moved, but fortunately no one showed tears from being unable to control their heightened emotions.

My nose did tingle, but this was just 1st place in Round 3.

We didn’t win the final victory.

Right now, there’s another team whose emotions are heightened in a different sense than ours.

It was Romance Story who had just become the eliminated contestants.

‘I shouldn’t do anything that might seem tactless.’

So we showed only moderate joy and hurriedly returned to our respective seats as the BGM ended.

“Yes, and 2nd place goes to May Rookie. Although 2nd place is quite a high ranking, since May Rookie has always been in 1st place, you might feel a bit disappointed.”

After that, announcer Choi Gyu-jin highlighted each group from 1st to 4th place, giving brief comments and conducting simple interviews.

And finally.

“Yes, congratulations to FLORA once again. Now then….”

Announcer Choi Gyu-jin stopped speaking and looked at Romance Story.

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